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Watch our first Nigeria Local Network webinar that took place on 10th April at covering 'Emerging Technologies: Cybersecurity and Robotic Process Automation' with our speakers Oharisi Oke and Jonathan Obiegba
This webinar will give an overview of two of the emerging technologies of our time, Cybersecurity and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
The audience will expect to learn the fundamentals of information security in today’s digital world and ways everyday users can protect themselves from Cyber-attacks, the basics of cyber security, the impacts of Cybercrimes, what needs to be secured, layers of security (Network Security and operating system security) and information protection using file encryption.
As regards RPA, emphasis will be on leading RPA technologies and how organizations can use RPA tools in digital transformation.
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The Nigerian Energy Landscape: A Historical Insight to Energy Policies and its Effects on Future Industrialization Efforts
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Do you know an outstanding volunteer? The IET Volunteer Medal was awarded for the first time in 2015 and recognises the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community. The award is open to all individuals who have been engaged in an IET volunteering role for at least one year and ...
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IET Nigeria held their first CAD workshop for students and Young Professional's on 4th July 2016 with the aim of: - Creating awareness about the IET and its benefits for Engineering, Science and Technology professionals - CAD Session - PATW awareness and the need to volunteer inorder to make a difference in one's profession The workshop was to ...
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Nigeria Celebrates One Year Without Polio case Health officials in Nigeria are celebrating an impressive milestone: The country has gone one year without a single case of polio. The world is now one step closer to making polio the second human infectious disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated with an ...
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The second Nigerian PATW took place on the 29th of April at the Plateau State University, Bokkos and was organised by local volunteer Jonathan Obiegba. The event was a huge success with 6 competitors presenting to a large audience of friends, family and colleagues to win a chance to compete in the next stage of the compeition in Abu ...
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What is the future of learning? FIRST® LEGO® League teams will find the answers. In the 2014 FLL WORLD CLASS%u2120 Challenge, over 265,000 children from 80 countries will redesign how we gather knowledge and skills in the 21st century. Teams will teach adults about the ways that kids need and want to learn. Get ready for a whole new class – FLL ...
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Iyesomi Maureen Imomoh presentation on "Construction Robots: A Lasting Solution to Infrastructural Development" is the 2012 winner of the Nigera PATW. She will now attend the EMEA Regional Final taking place on 26 August in Paris. View more photographs from the 2012 PATW Competition
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A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have been launched. The products, designed by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou, are manufactured in China. His company VMK's devices run Google's Android software. They will retail at $170 (£105) for the smartphone and $300 (£185) for the ...
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The Nigeria PATW was held at the weekend on Saturday 29 June 2013. The Delta State University played host providing the Institution's Electronic Library as Venue for the event. An excited group of engineering students were in attendance. Unfortunately not one of the 5 entrants from the University to the Competition made presentations as they ...
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